Re: [Subclipse-users] Partial Switch to Branch/Tag

On Wed, Jul 2, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Chris Spencer
<cspencer_at_finestationery.com> wrote:

> I'm working with a moderately large codebase (around 100 MB). The way I
> understand the "Switch to Branch/Tag" tool is that it replaces an entire
> project with the desired branch/tag. So if I branch the entire codebase and
> then switch to it, this results in several minutes of waiting while 100 MB
> of files are copied out of SVN, even if those files are identical to what's
> already checked out. Therefore, when I work on feature enhancements that
> only effect a couple files, I tend to avoid the Switch tool and only branch
> the few files I need to modify, check them out as a separate project, and
> manually copy and paste them into the project containing the full codebase.

I am just going to reply to this part for now because your above
assumption is incorrect. Switch is intelligent and only sends the
deltas needed to get from where you are and where you want to be. If
you switch to a branch that only has a few lines of code modified,
scattered across a couple of files, then that is all that will be sent
from the server.

Generally, I would strongly encourage you to switch your entire project.

-- 
Thanks
Mark Phippard
http://markphip.blogspot.com/
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